Yōko Nogiwa

Yōko Nogiwa (野際 陽子, Nogiwa Yōko; 24 January 1936 – 13 June 2017) was a Japanese actress. Her acting career spanned from 1958 until 2017.

Yoko Nogiwa
野際 陽子
Yoko in 1963
Born	(1936-01-24)24 January 1936 Tsubata, Ishikawa, Japan
Died	13 June 2017(2017-06-13) (aged 81) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupations	Actress television presenter narrator
Years active	1958–2017
Spouse	Sonny Chiba ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 1994)​
Children	Juri Manase

Biography

Nogiwa was born in Toyama, Toyama, and grew up in Suginami, Tokyo from the age of three.^[1] She graduated from Rikkyo University.^[1]

In 1973, she married Sonny Chiba, with whom she co-starred in the TV series Key Hunter.^[1] They had a daughter, Juri Manase, in 1975, who later became an actress.^[1] Nogiwa and Chiba divorced in 1994.

Nogiwa died from lung cancer on 13 June 2017, at the age of 81.^[1][2]

Filmography

Films

• Yakuza Deka (1970) – A singer
• Nichiren (1979)
• The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) – Shizuko Nogi
• Shaso (1989)
• Minna no Ie (2001) – Setsuko Iijima
• When Will You Return? (2017) – Tomoko Ashimura (present days)

Television

• Key Hunter (1967) - Keiko Tsugawa
• Onihei Hankachō(1975) -Omasa
• The Super Girl (1979) - Yuko Hirose
• Hideyoshi (1996) – Omaki no kata
• Trick (2000) – Satomi Yamada
• Honmamon (2001–2002)^[3]
• At Home Dad [ja] (2004) – Yoshie Koshikawa
• Shinsengumi! (2004) – Kondō Fude
• Yasuragi no Sato (2017) – Ryoko Ibuka

Dubbing

• Alien (1980 Fuji TV edition) – Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)^[4]